directx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.

Play your favorite games in a borderless window; no more time consuming alt-tabs.

The Forge Cross-Platform Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

Tooll 3 is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics.

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀

The DirectX Tool Kit (aka DirectXTK) is a collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 11.x code in C++

Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) is a thin abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal

Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop

Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET.

DirectXTex texture processing library

Modern C++14 library for the development of real-time graphical applications

DirectXMath is an all inline SIMD C++ linear algebra library for use in games and graphics apps

The DirectX Tool Kit (aka DirectXTK12) is a collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 12 code in C++

Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.

Live shader coding tool and Shader Showdown workhorse